Friday, August 14, 2009

Uncle Perc's tips for safe web browsing

this is primarily for my facebook friends. as we all know, the internet is a dangerous place, and a lot of times folks use outdated or commonly used software for their web browsing without giving much thought to the risks. there are quite a few alternatives out there though, that can help make the experience safer. google recently came out with their web browser chrome, apple has safari, and there's the one i'll be talking about, firefox. this is my advice:

don't use internet explorer. one thing to remember about hackers, virus writers, and such ne'er do wells, is that they go for maximum exposure. this makes weaknesses in internet explorer their #1 target. so don't use it.

go here:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html

and download the firefox browser

once you've done that, open the new web browser, which will prompt you to copy over your bookmarks and preferences from IE.

then follow this link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722


select "add to firefox"

this will prevent scripts from running on pages you look at. initially this will result in some really funky looking web pages, as a lot of the advertisements will be blank and some things won't work, like some video embeds, search fields, etc. you can fix this by looking at the bar that should appear at the bottom of your browser.

on the right side of the bar should be an "options..." button. click that and it will show you all the scripts running on that page. you'll be surprised to find that many times there are 10 or more different websites trying to run scripts on a single page! but this addon will allow you to pick and choose which ones are allowed to function.

happy hunting!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Legion

what happens when god decides we've failed? this looks awesome!

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

ANGRY MOB MAULS CROWDER!!

clearly the anger against obamacare is limited to political shills and paid hitmen!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Aion official 1.5 trailer!

soooooo excited

Sunday, August 2, 2009

your daily 80s 9

yeah so i'm late again. piss off. still have 900 words to go on my software documentation paper. NOT fun.

anyway.

today (or yesterday i suppose if you want to be technical) we have our first request.

Anabella Lwin was only 14 when she was recruited
to be the lead singer of this band so stop starin at her you pervs!

here's Bow Wow Wow with "I Want Candy"

Saturday, August 1, 2009

your daily 80s 8

yes, i know it's late. too many distractions today, not the least of which being my final for softwre documentation. good times. and aion closed beta 5 started today. but i digress. here's a "one hit wonder" from berry gordy's son, kennedy gordy, better known as rockwell.

enjoy, but don't watch too closely, it might watch you back...

Thursday, July 30, 2009

your daily 80s 7

With one of the last big hits for the Bangles, here's the always ever so hot Susanna Hoffs singing "Eternal Flame"

P.S. yes, i know Bangles is spelled wrong. blame Natasha8119